"J.Barfurth" wrote:
> > 2) Why _can't_ you have a virtual static function?  There must be a good
> > reason, but I have no clue as to what that good reason is.

In my opinion I think the reason is quite simple:

a static method is not passed "this", and the (run time) type of this is
used to select a virtual method.

Lorenzo

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